FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 
and before the methods of the forester 
can be applied to such extensive areas, 
this valuable heritage will probably | 
have vanished. Heretofore it has been 
to us Americans in the supply of wood 
what bread and water are in daily life. 
It has been hardly less valued by other 
nations, having been planted as a forest 
tree in Germany a full century ago. 
I cannot say what I admire most in 
the white pine; whether it be the luxu- 
riance and purity of its foliage, or the 
very graceful spread of its boughs. 
There is hardly a tree that can equal 
it for softness and rich color. The 
tufts of needlelike leaves densely 
cover the upper surfaces of the spread- 
ing branches, and are of a mild, uni- 
formly pure olive-green. Seen from 
beneath they appear tangled in the 
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